Daily Archives: January 7, 2014

It’s been quiet on this blog, and for that I apologize. But the
truth is, there just isn’t much going on in the weather world at
the moment.

Well, at least for us.

The east coast is currently slipping and sliding on ice, snow
and sub zero weather while we have to “endure” the occasional
pitter-patter of raindrops on the roof with the chance of a few
sunbreaks by the afternoon if we’re lucky.

What a hard life!

Things are going to change starting Wednesday, however, which
should make life a little more interesting:

Gone are the days (for now) of snow
maps. What you see above this text is a map illustrating 24-hour
rainfall totals across Western Washington by Thursday morning at 4
am. Mason County looks to get in in close to an inch of rain, with
most Kitsap locations getting about a half an inch. Still, this is
relatively a lot of rain considering we haven’t seen a weather
system this juicy since early November.

And this isn’t even an El Nino
year!

Alas, our “wildcard winter” has, at
least so far, been quite a dud. Ask any skier and snowboarder in
Washington State, and they’ll give you an earful. So how are the
mountains looking over the next few days? Marvelous for Stevens
Pass, as these systems will be just cool enough to bring several
inches of snow to the higher elevations. Snoqualmie won’t be so
lucky, however, as most of what falls there should be
rain/snow, or just plain rain.

A stronger weather system moves in
over the weekend, and this could provide quite a bit of rain and
wind. In fact, gusts could make it between 40-50 mph, so that is
definitely something to keep an eye on, especially since it’s game
day in Seattle. But a little rain and wind has never stopped a true
Seahawks fan!